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The official who led China's delegation in recent climate negotiations says the right to a better life in poor countries trumps the responsibility to cut emissions.

A mountain lion wandered into the uniquely tolerant town of Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, and was ultimately shot by police. Heated debate has ensued.

Bill Gates adds detail to his call for a research push to expand energy choices without overheating the planet.

An anatomy of the oil giant's media response to the Gulf disaster.

A tongue-in-cheek commercial from an anti-pollution group delivers a message about what the city’s pollution could portend.

Exploratory drilling by a Scottish oil firm was halted after four Greenpeace protesters scaled the rig and suspended tents from its underside.

Learning which water sources villagers use and how far they carry heavy jerrycans of water is itself thirsty work in the Rwandan heat.

They say the ballot initiative to suspend the state's climate change law would hurt low-income communities already suffering the most from pollution.

Largely below the radar, a growing number of activists are scoring important victories at the regional level by combining serious coalition building, astute policy research and aggressive political action, paving the way in the process for a new New Deal in America.

India's supreme court has reopened the Bhopal toxic gas leak case in response to a government petition seeking harsher punishment for officials from Union Carbide, the chemical company responsible.

Scandalized by federal regulators who had sex with oil company executives and negotiated with them for jobs, the agency that oversees offshore drilling is imposing a first-ever ethics policy that bars inspectors from dealing with a company that employs a family member or personal friend.

They say the ballot initiative to suspend the state's climate change law would hurt low-income communities already suffering the most from pollution.

Largely below the radar, a growing number of activists are scoring important victories at the regional level by combining serious coalition building, astute policy research and aggressive political action, paving the way in the process for a new New Deal in America.

Developers of a proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm were cleared to move forward Tuesday when Massachusetts' high court rejected a claim that the project sidestepped local opposition to win a key permit.

Federal agents have descended for a second time on Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, the two Iowa farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive egg recall.

A new power plant will be fuelled by poultry bedding and meat and bone meal. It will produce approximately 30 megawatts of electricity as an output of the incineration process.

India’s Supreme Court is reopening the Bhopal gas disaster case, after a huge public outcry at the lenient sentences recently handed down to the former Indian top management at the blighted Union Carbide pesticide plant.

The federal government has intervened to resolve longstanding regulatory issues with two landfills in East Brunswick, and has charged site owners over $2 million in fines.

Some lenders are taking a stand on practices like mining and deforestation that may be risky to their reputations.

France’s Champagne industry is trying to cut the carbon dioxide it emits transporting billions of tiny bubbles around the world.